skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> actual malice or negligence, meaning Dominion must show that Giuliani either intended to destroy Dominion's reputation by spreading facts he knew to be false, or that he was at least negligent, acting with reckless disregard for the truth.

The so-called "actual malice" standard doesn't require proof of intent to damage reputation. It only requires proof that the defendant said the defamatory statement "with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not". New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964). (This is important because Rudy probably didn't care one way or the other about Dominion's reputation; they were just collateral damage as far as he was concerned.)
is this stating the "meme complex" idea using a different analogy?
Honest question - it's obvious how you identify politically by all your posts here, but what has your comment got to do with the story?

If it's a false story, say it. If it's not - what exactly are you saying with your comment?
I haven’t had a Mac in a few years but iirc they ship zsh* nowadays not bash
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Maybe it shouldn't be doing that, but "recompiling C code in safe mode" only makes sense if you don't have to change the code much or at all.

If you have to make all kinds of changes to the code you might as well just translate it into a different language.
Don't worry about DRY until you hit three copies. You probably don't know enough to make the right tradeoffs until then. To me DRY has always been about, i need to change something, and now need to magically know everywhere else it was copied to to change as well. So that's kind of my mental check for when it starts being worth it.
That's how it got the name
That stories from "Newsweek" are routinely submitted here and often voted onto the front page, despite "Newsweek" being essentially an SEO scam.
You used to get bullied for being a "faggot", now you're bullied for being a "conservative". Progress, indeed.
Maybe something that’s sole purpose is privilege escalation, like sudo, should come with some expectation of responsibility.
If we're talking about recompiling a handful of SUID programs, why not just manually translate them into Rust or something similar?
I read about a guy who wanted to reproduce a neural net and he worked at it for a year only to find it missed a +1 in one place. Being a neural net it still worked but not as good. I don't think this kind of error would have been caught by a type system.
A good analyses, but it does miss mentioning 2 things I can think of:

Philosophical beliefs in the realms of politics, social, religious, are long thought not to be a discovery of the truth but a creation of a system in which the believers want to live in. It is not true that "thou shalt not kill" in the sense that is is not a law of the universe, but it sure makes living together a lot more desirable.

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem - discovering a cronyism might generate a knee jerk reaction to eliminate it without understanding the full consequences of doing that. The data involved in a problem is practically infinite. Better the devil you know might be exemplified like this: sure, Bob is kind of lazy and he costs you 5k$ to employ him at you textile factory, but outsourcing your production to Asia, even though 1/5th of the cost for same productivity, might introduce problems you are not aware of at the time like: child labor, local workers not affording to buy your products any more, the outsourcing company controlling or taking over your business, etc.

So just discovering a belief isn't an universal truth or that it generates some problems does not necessarily justify destroying it.
Which did you try? This is the reason most (all?) of the books focus on things outside or on the fringes of the utopia.
Ask them.

Be a good human and make sure people helping you get answers know their efforts matter. If you have personality, this all can be fun. If not, and there is no shame in that, do your best to communicate it back anyway. If you mean it, chances are others will grok that meaning. Good as it gets.

Be humble. One upside of working with people who may be smarter, wiser through experience, is the good tends to rub off. More good happens when you seek it too.

Seek this in your life when you need or want to grow. Truth is, others often see something like that and think back to their own growth and it is fun to see and be a part of. This is true for the ones growing as well as those helping them grow.

Have some faith. You are smart enough. The rest is just work, and we all have our work to do. It varies, amd there is no shame in that either.

Right here is where many of us would write, "past or younger me...", but I won't.

I won't, because I happen to have had good mentors, some of whom ended up long term friends, who I ended up helping in like kind later on as my own body of experiences accumulated.

I am sharing what was given to me.

Do think about your questions and the answers. This can be confusing, how many ways to ask, how many times, what if...?

I resolved this with some help, and the help is make damn sure others you seek help from, but in general just others, know you are working for it. And if you truly are, not just leaning on others, instead seeking to own it, your questions will be the right or good questions.

And when it is your time to share what you got out of this free ride here, you will have become one of those good, or better people. Amplify the good and pass the idea of making good people better along.

This is a powerful idea. And it does not carry any weight of judgement or blame. Good people work for it, whatever it is, and when they do that while also being good humans in that work, the good in everyone, the team, get amplified.

Yeah, I know. This all seems shallow. Maybe it is!

All I can tell you is I got a lot of consideration and opportunities in my life playing it this way. You are likely to experience the same. Others you share it all with will too. Did not really make enemies either. One never knows who may be working with, or for who.

I like to think it is infectious in the best of ways. Has been in my experience so far, and in this way we often have more ability to shape our world than we may believe.
Are the facts in the story false?
This seems unnecessarily antagonistic.
Pretty much all of the novels take place on the edges of this utopia, and are exploring what motivates people who have immortality and material abundance.

You have utopia. Now what?
Sufficiently powerful private corporations should be held to similar standards. It's a loophole in the first amendment, honestly - congress can't make a law punishing certain kinds of speech, but it can make Facebook's CEO show up to testify and threaten ruinous regulation if certain problems on the platform aren't handled.
That aphorism applies to publishing within the scientific community and the need for grants, tenure, results, etc.
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They treat ideology as the upper class has always done, not as true believers, just a means to an end?
Yes -- super important to be candid and tell the junior dev that this is how they should be approaching being stuck.
Wolt is also big in Israel not only in the EU. Their reputation here is of being unfair towards both couriers and businesses. In both cases it's not about the base compensation it's about monopolistic over-controlling agreements like that restaurants are not allowed to do their own discounts and couriers get fined personally for being late (even if there was a valid reason)
If memory serves, Excession starts with something going wrong.
But do we actually have more features? I don't think Google Docs has more features than Ami Pro.

I think the problem is the modern focus on adding features, without consideration whether and how these compose. Not all features are equal - some can be used as a foundation on which more can be easily built, while some are a detriment to that. Just adding features without architectural consideration leads to - surprisingly - bad architecture.
https://archive.is/bN7DF
Chinese science, lmao.
What about Editor's ethics or lack thereof?

I got accepted in a Chinese-oriented journal (i.e. most of the Editorial Board were Chinese) - I am not just 'saying' this, I'm saying because the OP mentioned "it's a Chinese thing" over results and datasets, whatever, I digress.

On the last revision round, the Editor told me that I was lacking some references, which he promptly send me. Turned out that 6 out 6 of his 'recommendations' were papers HE WAS ONE OF THE AUTHORS.

Since the paper was not OFFICIALLY accepted, I caved in and cited the guy (3 times), to my UTTER DISMAY.

If you don't play the game, other Chinese are playing the game and having the results.

I don't mean to insult Chinese people, but this is what is happening...
I'm an individual (hobby?) user. I switched to Gitlab and purchased a subscription not for features but as a hedge against them selling out to another major company with a conflict of interest, but at 4x the cost I can't justify that. So much for putting my money where my mouth is.

I looked around and nobody except Github has a non-free hobbyist tier AFAICT. Is "paid personal git service" just not a thing? It's either free or you're an enterprise customer?
I wouldn't call it a dictatorship. The world of AIs went so far ahead that they don't really 'rule' humans in any sense. They just make up their environment. Same way we make up the environment of lives of our pets. AIs help humans with their spare capacity out of curiosity and benevolence but they don't really hesitate about inconveniencing them when there are greater things at play.

As for political system among AIs it looks to me as a sort of benevolent anarchy where individuals do what ought to be done in accordance to shared logic and etiquette.

There is a cool moment when etiquette is violated and one AI comes unannounced to solar system where other is residing. And this other is highly alarmed and fully expecting to be forced to fight for its survival.
Direct frequency regulation (primary reserve or FCR) acts directly on the measured frequency at the power plant. But yes, for secondary reserve (aFRR), every grid has to know all its flows, but I don't know of any European grid operator that was transparent about this information. You can deduct some of the cross-border flows from observing the energy markets.
> You have made an allegation about this person's character which does not appear to have supporting evidence, either in the article posted or any other source

Correct.

However, given the wider social context I’m making an inference from the facts that are established.
They ship a few shells, but the default is zsh these days.
Exactly. That’s the only reason why you stay in that high cost of living area.

Unless you work in healthcare. Then you can be wherever.
The Culture was seemed too difficult for Banks to write about directly; a very large proportion of the Culture books are written about the intersection between the Culture and the "rest of the universe".

(side note: It's been a while since I've read them, and I admit I generally only reread the first 4 or so, due to sameiness and/or IMB's increasingly grody enthusiasm to describe Bad Stuff happening to people, preferably women, so we can be really righteously mad when There is Big Revenge. Sadly, this enthusiasm seems to have sparked a trend among even less-restrained authors like Richard Morgan, so I often hesitate to pick up an SF book for fear of reading about, I dunno, women getting heated irons stuffed into their genitals or something)

That said, Contact and Special Circumstances are usually what he describes - it's like he couldn't quite come up with much to write about that was within the Culture per se. So most of the action is the Culture at war, regardless of how supposedly peaceful and enlightened the Culture is.

I'm not surprised that Bezos and Musk are fans. Given the way post-scarcity is presented as more or less natural outcome of strong AI and space-opera-level physics, a post-scarcity society is entirely unthreatening to a modern-day billionaire (aside, I guess, from the decline in their relative condition - but in absolute terms, even Bezos and Musk would benefit enormously from being transported to the Culture, as it stands). It's not like we're achieving some sort of utopia by redistributing the resources of people like them (I am not claiming that's a good idea).
Technically, it is. But usage of the term has shifted a lot over the last 50 years.
This reminds me: why isn't there a good Python shell? Something with, as the author says, a "domain-specific language for dealing with concurrent processes and the file system", but otherwise basically Python? I'm sure people must have tried, so I guess there are fundamental incompatibilities between the two?
Sourcehut (https://sr.ht)?
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/India_2014
FTW
> Just adding features without architectural consideration leads to - surprisingly - bad architecture.

But you don't sell architecture. You sell features.

And people write their own Google Docs features. I have spent a bunch of time coding up things for that.
It's clearly untested, but the implication seems to be that data would survive for less than three months even.
I feel this. A good way to mitigate it as a good senior / mentor is to kinda go out of your way to actively help the juniors and specifically tell them that they should ask more questions, and help them understand when and how it is appropriate.
No wonder we have a crisis of faith in our institutions.
This line of reasoning breaks down whenever a population is experiencing any form of mass hysteria, and I think there's a reasonable argument that the US is very much in the midst of such a phenomenon right now. Indeed, that was the point of the example being provided by the poster you replied to: her staff quit because they acted based on a hysterical rather than rational analysis of the situation. They didn't break a law by quitting, but that doesn't mean this is something to take lightly or ignore. Mass hysteria is a very, very dangerous path to go down -- it's not something to brush off.
It's not a communist utopia. It's benevolent anarchy based on insane power of each individual (AI) where humans and their affairs are just sideshow.

Can you see the appeal for modern billionaires now?

I think they like "Beggars in Spain" series by Nancy Kress too.
We migrated our database to Amazon Aurora with zero downtime
It always surprises me that people get so much productivity gain out of their editors, shells and keyboards and such.

I write maybe a few dozen lines of code on a good day.
Y'know, I don't agree with you in general, and you did put this in general terms.

But this is frakkin sudo we're talking about.

It's a wonder that anything works, ever.
People are walking chimps, organizing into tribes and beating the other tribe. Like, our cousins, we take visceral emotional satisfaction in demeaning the other tribe.

Today’s US is just a grand example of this at Internet scale and energized by social media. Welcome to shit throwing and the tearing off of genitals.

What you have now are threat displays to keep the losing tribe in its place. People identifying with the winning tribe feel good that there is a lesser party to trample on.

Calls for unity happen after a change in power because constant struggle is destructive. After a change in power, lesser chimps (tech) pay fealty to the new alphas (Democratic Congress and Presidency).

This whole system works because cooperation within a group allows the group as a whole to compete effectively against other groups. We are organized fractally in this way. To the victor go the spoils.
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For me: No. I feel like powershell tried exactly that and i don't like it. That may be in the end just depend on execution though.

But powershell e.g. prints errors that look like stacktraces (it's been a few years i don't remember exactly) with type information. And while that may be desirable to some, when using bash i'm using a UI as a user and not programming and i don't want to read a stacktrace. I want an error message in english telling me what's wrong.
Yep, that's part of why reddit is so great.

> Fundamentally i think the solution is competitors. This was a much easier position to take when the web did not just have a few social media giants with network effects, but still: if youtube becomes to dranicon, start a new website. The tools to stream video (albeit not at scale) are just an apt-get away.

There's no serious YouTube competition because YouTube is not (just) a video host. Video hosting isn't that big a deal (though hard at scale).

YouTube is a network of videos, creators and viewers powered by recommendations, subscriptions advertisements (paying creators) and massive network effects.

You could build yet another video host and even have niche success with it. But you have no chance of providing the equivalent effect of a video landing on the YouTube frontpage.
As pointed out below, there are some states where politics are protected. I looked it up because I do plan to use that information in hiring decisions going forward.

I wouldn't surprised if I get downvoted for this, but I intend to ask anyone I interview in the future (not currently in a role that involves hiring) if they voted for Trump in 2020. And a yes will be a disqualifying answer on the basis of poor judgement. (It's also a question I will be asking any potential employer I interview with, going forward, for the same reason.)

Yes, I will lose some diversity of thought as a result. Yes it means I can't hire employees in California. Yes, there will be potential bad PR. No, I won't feel guilty about it at all. And yes, I will also run it by appropriate lawyers before actually implementing it.
Mac never stopped shipping Bash. What they did was to no longer use it as the default interactive shell. Zsh is now the new default shell. As far as I know, Mac has never shipped with Fish.
You shouldn’t know and especially shouldn’t care if your prospective employee is “a rabid QAnon nut” or a crazy Bukharin-loving anarchist.
Default shell is zsh. They ship old version pre-GPL3 bash. I just “brew install bash” and then change my user shell in the system preferences to point at it.
I guess the main thing is that there is basically infinite demand for more things in software.

Law is very similar to software in this way. They both also take a long time to write & are never actually "finished."
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$600,000 buys you a house with a broken toilet, if you’re lucky to even have a toilet.

$700,000 buys you a house with a single used toilet. Sold as is.
And yet the capability is there within the technologies on display in various books. In Use of Weapons a Mind replaces one character with a machine duplicate that exactly replicates her personality and physiology, complete with memory dumps before and after so that when she gets back she will remember having been in both places. In the same book, the main character is a non-Culture mercenary who got the Culture to make him immortal as his first payment. He can be killed, but he’ll never age. Everyone in the Culture thinks that he’s really weird for doing so. Everyone in the Culture uses their drug glands to consciously tweak their mood and mental capabilities, and when they sleep many of them spend subjective weeks playing adventure–fantasy computer games. With all of that ready to hand, you would think that at least a few Culture citizens would have themselves scanned and uploaded into a computer where they can spend eternity doing whatever they way, including learning how to expand their mind into a Mind. Instead most of them choose to die after 400 years.

I think Banks just wanted to write a particular type of story, and so he just air–brushed that possibility out so that people would stay people.

Also, don't lose sight of the fact that this utopia is really only possible because energy is literally free, in that any quantity of energy can simply be summoned into existence at any time, for no cost. And they never seem to have to plan for how to dissipate the waste heat, either. Again, he wrote a particular kind of story. Also, once we start building our Dyson swarm we'll be in a similar situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A
Good news: In the upcoming 3.2 release, fish will be less insistent on resetting terminal modes, so things like this (and enabling flow control) will be possible.

(I'm the fish dev who implemented that)
That's what I'm wondering.

I signed up for a Parler account when it first opened, just for a bit of curiosity and research. Found it to be a total cesspool, never posted anything.

People should be judged for the actual opinions they express, when taken in the context of the totality of their character. But I definitely wouldn't support the shunning of somebody simply for signing up for a free service.

Heck, as a software developer and one who dabbles in activism, I've signed up for way "worse" sites than Parler. Waaaaaaay worse.
Not too many. Too many bad questions. Learning how to ask good friends questions is important to any junior anything.
I agree with OP, opinions shouldn’t be censored, no matter how much we disagree with them.

Anything that’s not harassment, a direct threat or direct call to violence should be allowed.

To your example, if someone attacks you personally then that would count as harassment and be moderated out.
I would move Matter and Surface Detail to the first two spots and bumped up Use of Weapons few positions up, but the rest can stay in that order. ;-)
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I just wanted to say that this resonated with me, as a former grad student involved in protein research who is now doing dev work. I hope you're doing well these days!
Sometimes I want a more interactive shell. With the native ability to display graphics and view html and PDFs and other docs, without opening a separate GUI program.
The end of the 1940s gave us the subroutine. A means through which one could encapsulate some functionality into a named construct that could be called (reused) throughout a program.

It’s a construct available for a programmer to use. DRY encourages one to do so when appropriate. Dogmas interpreted that one must always do so are simply unhelpful.
Not sure why you’re particularly worried about lesser known universities? These issues seem to have more to do with the state of science and the review process than the prestige/fame of any particular university. I’m pretty worried about the well known universities as well, in particular the expectations and pressure to perform can affect people’s work and decision making.
This is a very sensible comment, but I think the fear some have is that these companies will eventually be the sole arbiters of what is and is not acceptable to talk about because they will control all means of communication and information dissemination.

I'd like to say face to face communication is outside of their control, but when I think about how many devices in my house have microphones and cameras in them I begin to question even that assumption.

I bring up private communication because Norway recently passed hate speech laws that threaten prison time for private remarks they deem "hate speech".